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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II

NPNF2 Volume 9: Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus

Schaff, Series II

Edited by Philip Schaff

Historians, Cappadocians, Athanasius, and the councils.

Public domain. Not a modern critical translation.

Contents

  1. Series Title
  2. Title Page
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction
    1. The Life and Writings of St. Hilary of Poitiers
    2. The Theology of St. Hilary of Poitiers
  5. De Synodis or On the Councils
    1. Introduction
    2. De Synodis or On the Councils
  6. De Trinitate or On the Trinity
    1. Introduction
    2. De Trinitate or On the Trinity
      1. Book I
      2. Book II
      3. Book III
      4. Book IV
      5. Book V
      6. Book VI
      7. Book VII
      8. Book VIII
      9. Book I. X
      10. Book X
      11. Book XI
      12. Book XII
  7. Homilies on Psalms I., LIII., CXXX
    1. Introduction
    2. Homilies on the Psalms
      1. Homily on Psalm I
      2. Homily on Psalm LIII. (LIV.)
      3. Homily on Psalm CXXX. (CXXXI.)
  8. John of Damascus: Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
    1. Note
    2. Prologue
    3. An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
      1. Book I
        1. That the Deity is incomprehensible, and that we ought not to pry into and meddle with the things which have not been delivered to us by the holy Prophets, and Apostles, and Evangelists
        2. Concerning things utterable and things unutterable, and things knowable and thing unknowable
        3. Proof that there is a God
        4. Concerning the nature of Deity: that it is incomprehensible
        5. Proof that God is one and not many
        6. Concerning the Word and the Son of God: a reasoned proof
        7. Concerning the Holy Spirit, a reasoned proof
        8. Concerning the Holy Trinity
        9. Concerning what is affirmed about God
        10. Concerning divine union and separation
        11. Concerning what is affirmed about God as though He had body
        12. Concerning the Same
        13. Concerning the place of God: and that the Deity alone is uncircumscribed
        14. The properties of the divine nature
      2. Book II
        1. Concerning æon or age
        2. Concerning the creation
        3. Concerning angels
        4. Concerning the devil and demons
        5. Concerning the visible creation
        6. Concerning the Heaven
        7. Concerning light, fire, the luminaries, sun, moon and stars
        8. Concerning air and winds
        9. Concerning the waters
        10. Concerning earth and its products
        11. Concerning Paradise
        12. Concerning Man
        13. Concerning Pleasures
        14. Concerning Pain
        15. Concerning Fear
        16. Concerning Anger
        17. Concerning Imagination
        18. Concerning Sensation
        19. Concerning Thought
        20. Concerning Memory
        21. Concerning Conception and Articulation
        22. Concerning Passion and Energy
        23. Concerning Energy
        24. Concerning what is Voluntary and what is Involuntary
        25. Concerning what is in our own power, that is, concerning Free-will
        26. Concerning Events
        27. Concerning the reason of our endowment with Free-will
        28. Concerning what is not in our hands
        29. Concerning Providence
        30. Concerning Prescience and Predestination
      3. Book III
        1. Concerning the Divine Œconomy and God's care over us, and concerning our salvation
        2. Concerning the manner in which the Word was conceived, and concerning His divine incarnation
        3. Concerning Christ's two natures, in opposition to those who hold that He has only one
        4. Concerning the manner of the Mutual Communication
        5. Concerning the number of the Natures
        6. That in one of its subsistences the divine nature is united in its entirety to the human nature, in its entirety and not only part to part
        7. Concerning the one compound subsistence of God the Word
        8. In reply to those who ask whether the natures of the Lord are brought under a continuous or a discontinuous quantity
        9. In reply to the question whether there is Nature that has no Subsistence
        10. Concerning the Trisagium (“the Thrice Holy”)
        11. Concerning the Nature as viewed in Species and in Individual, and concerning the difference between Union and Incarnation: and how this is to be understood, “The one Nature of God the Word Incarnate.”
        12. That the holy Virgin is the Mother of God: an argument directed against the Nestorians
        13. Concerning the properties of the two Natures
        14. Concerning the volitions and free-will of our Lord Jesus Christ
        15. Concerning the energies in our Lord Jesus Christ
        16. In reply to those who say “If man has two natures and two energies, Christ must be held to have three natures and as many energies.”
        17. Concerning the deification of the nature of our Lord's flesh and of His will
        18. Further concerning volitions and free-wills: minds, too, and knowledges and wisdoms
        19. Concerning the theandric energy
        20. Concerning the natural and innocent passions
        21. Concerning ignorance and servitude
        22. Concerning His growth
        23. Concerning His Fear
        24. Concerning our Lord's Praying
        25. Concerning the Appropriation
        26. Concerning the Passion of our Lord's body, and the Impassibility of His divinity
        27. Concerning the fact that the divinity of the Word remained inseparable from the soul and the body, even at our Lord's death, and that His subsistence continued one
        28. Concerning Corruption and Destruction
        29. Concerning the Descent to Hades
      4. Book IV
        1. Concerning what followed the Resurrection
        2. Concerning the sitting at the right hand of the Father
        3. In reply to those who say “If Christ has two natures, either ye do service to the creature in worshipping created nature, or ye say that there is one nature to be worshipped, and another not to be worshipped.”
        4. Why it was the Son of God, and not the Father or the Spirit, that became man: and what having became man He achieved
        5. In reply to those who ask if Christ's subsistence is create or uncreate
        6. Concerning the question, when Christ was called
        7. In answer to those who enquire whether the holy Mother of God bore two natures, and whether two natures hung upon the Cross
        8. How the Only-begotten Son of God is called first-born
        9. Concerning Faith and Baptism
        10. Concerning Faith
        11. Concerning the Cross and here further concerning Faith
        12. Concerning Worship towards the East
        13. Concerning the holy and immaculate Mysteries of the Lord
        14. Concerning our Lord's genealogy and concerning the holy Mother of God
        15. Concerning the honour due to the Saints and their remains
        16. Concerning Images
        17. Concerning Scripture
        18. Regarding the things said concerning Christ
        19. That God is not the cause of evils
        20. That there are not two Kingdoms
        21. The purpose for which God in His foreknowledge created persons who would sin and not repent
        22. Concerning the law of God and the law of sin
        23. Against the Jews on the question of the Sabbath
        24. Concerning Virginity
        25. Concerning the Circumcision
        26. Concerning the Antichrist
        27. Concerning the Resurrection
  9. Indexes
    1. Index of Scripture References
    2. Greek Words and Phrases
    3. Index of Pages of the Print Edition